Hyderabad, April 9 -- With the Telangana government announcing the new metro rail between Chandrayangutta and Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), land grabbers from local mafias in and around Jalpally are now eyeing Waqf properties as prices of land have shot up.

There are Waqf properties running into several hundreds of acres in Jalpally, Mamidpally and Pahadi Shareef located in close proximity to the proposed metro rail line. Thanks to the project, land prices have gone up in the last few weeks itself.

Sources said an extent of 718 acre of land of Ashoorkhana Ali Saad and Dargah Hazrat Saif Nawaz Jung at Mamidipally located in Jalpally and Mamidpally is in danger. "The land mafia and encroachers are demarcating the Waqf propert...